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Re:Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – Yes, 65% by cubefox on Monday July 24, 2023 @05:51PM (#36854723)
> "Safety issues" are to him more like, "the AI will kill everyone to fill its objectives"

Yes, and he was way ahead of the curve here, since similar positions got a lot more mainstream in the past years and months. E.g. two of three AI Turing award winners (Hinton and Bengio) now say that superintelligent AI poses a serious extinction risk. OpenAI has also identified the alignment problem as a major issue. Even former AI skeptics like Douglas Hofstadter now broadly agree with this assessment. Yudkowsky's opinion was quite prescient.

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Re:Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – Yes, 65% by Zetice on Monday July 24, 2023 @07:15PM (#36855545)
So in other words, people who've spent their entire lives thinking and talking about AI praise other people who also have spent their entire lives thinking and talking about AI.

This is a bubble conversation that makes no sense to people outside of that bubble, and for good reason; it doesn't matter outside of that bubble.

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Re:Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – Yes, 65% by cubefox on Monday July 24, 2023 @07:38PM (#36855725)
No, AI experts which formerly were skeptical of an outsider's (Yudkowsky's) opinion, now changed their mind about it.
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Re:Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – Yes, 65% by Zetice on Monday July 24, 2023 @07:40PM (#36855747)
Wait, so you deny the fact that Hinton and Bengio have worked on AI their entire careers?
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Re:Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – Yes, 65% by cubefox on Monday July 24, 2023 @09:02PM (#36856438)
No, I don't, why do you think that?
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Re:Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – Yes, 65% by Zetice on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @09:14AM (#36861712)
Because you said “no”, and I only said one thing. Do you take that back?
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Re:Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – Yes, 65% by cubefox on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @04:23AM (#36874615)
I was disagreeing with it being about experts "praising" each other.
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Re:Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – Yes, 65% by Zetice on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @09:18PM (#36887613)
No you weren't, you were choosing to focus on a different category to which these people belonged in an ultimately non sequitur comment.
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Re:Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – Yes, 65% by CatWChainsaw on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @12:50PM (#36880784)
That's so embarrassingly obtuse I refuse to believe you aren't aware and are just being contrarian.
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Re:Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – Yes, 65% by Zetice on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @09:18PM (#36887619)
Not obtuse at all, just catching rhetorical trickery.
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Re:Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – Yes, 65% by janalsncm on Monday July 24, 2023 @09:01PM (#36856431)
None of those people you mentioned share Yudkowsky’s conclusion that air strikes against data centers are warranted.
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Re:Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – Yes, 65% by hollerith on Monday July 24, 2023 @09:10PM (#36856509)
Do you have a citation for that?

I know how to find the statements by Hinton and Benigo that superintelligent AI poses a serious extinction risk, but I can't find any statements by Hinton and Benigo--or anyone who is taking the risk seriously--suggesting that air strikes would not be warranted, so any clues on where to look would be appreciated.

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